● LAUNCHED Listed Aug 19, 2026 — trading now. Payment history will be charted here from the first distribution.
Status updates daily from SEC records and our 15-minute issuer radar. A green LAUNCHED badge here means it's live and our launch tracker has logged it.
What ARKY Will Do, Per the Filing
ARKY listed on August 19, 2026 on Cboe BZX — and it's a headline on two counts: it is ARK Invest's first income ETF ever, and it joins the autocallable category as fund #28, from issuer #11. Cathie Wood's shop is best known for betting on innovation-stock upside; ARKY monetizes those same stocks' volatility the opposite way — selling their crash risk for coupons.
Per ARK's launch materials: a portfolio of 25-50 single-stock autocallables drawn from ARK's innovation research universe (the ARKK family's hunting ground), targeting a 17.5% coupon, with coupon barriers set at 50-60% of each stock's starting price — i.e., names can fall 40-50% before coupons are at risk, cushions deeper than the category's typical 30-40%, because innovation names can fall much further, much faster. A sub-advisor actively calibrates strikes and maturities position by position, aiming to limit NAV erosion. Expense ratio 0.85%. The single-stock autocallable design pioneered by GraniteShares' suite is now being run on the market's most volatile equity universe — richer coupons, and barriers that names like these have historically been capable of reaching.
No distributions declared yet — ARKY sits on our First-Check Watch, and we'll chart every payment from the first one. The category machinery, in plain English, is in our autocallable ETF explainer.
What Nobody Can Know Yet
A registration filing is a plan, not a product. Until ARKY trades, there is no payment history, no real yield, and no evidence of how its strategy behaves in live markets — any number you hear before launch is a target or a guess. Filings also get delayed, renamed, or quietly abandoned; this page's status updates daily either way. When ARKY does launch, we chart every payment from its very first one, free.
One email the day a new income fund launches — nothing else, ever. We watch the issuers' own sites continuously; you hear before the videos exist.
Frequently Asked Questions
When did ARKY launch?
It launched Aug 19, 2026. The registration was first seen in SEC records dated Aug 19, 2026; issuers typically launch within months of filing, but filings can also stall. The status box above updates daily, and the launch tracker shows everything else on the runway.
What will ARKY pay?
Unknowable until it trades — there is no payment history and the filing promises no rate. The strategy is option-income, so distributions would depend on real option premiums once live.
How is ARKY different from other autocallable ETFs?
Three ways. The reference assets: ARK's innovation universe — high-volatility single names rather than indexes — which prices the 17.5% target coupon. The barriers: set at 50-60% of starting prices — 40-50% of room before coupons are at risk, deeper cushions than the category's typical 30-40%, an acknowledgment that innovation stocks can halve. And active management: a sub-advisor continuously adjusts strikes and maturities rather than following a fixed index recipe. Whether active calibration actually protects NAV better than the passive ladders is exactly what its payment record — charted here from check #1 — will eventually show.